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Pineapple with Floating Island

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple with Floating Island

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel and remove the eyes from the pineapple.

  2. Tear shreds from the pineapple with a fork and discard the core.

  3. Add sugar to taste and serve ice cold, with floating island in separate dishes or on the same plates.

  4. For added flavor, soak the pineapple in wine for several hours before serving.

  5. If using bananas, slice them and serve with floating island, adding sugar and pouring orange juice over them.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Banana + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pineapple + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Wine + orangetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the banana

The recipe marks banana as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, sugar, wine, orange):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Mangofits about as well
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sugar, wine, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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